Zackman23434
Chirping
- Jul 17, 2015
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Any experience with GLW roosters? My only one came from Murray McMurray so no special heritage or anything and will be 7 weeks old on Friday. I have one deleware cockerel, and one RIR cockerel plus Elvis( the GLW). They each have traits I like and don't. I am going to try and keep 2 of them. The Deleware is nice to everyone and the most curious of me but he thinks my fingers are food and bites hard. Elvis is completely wild and hilarious to watch he likes to run around and give everyone a pop or two on the head as he makes his rounds. He bites my fingers too but instead of continuing to try and eat my hand he typically bites softly once and then realizes my hands not food and stops. And again he does it soft. He also like to roost on me. The RIR completely keeps away from me for the most part, he has never bitten me though and if he ever does get close enough he will peck at my hand not bite and its extremely light and gentle. But, I hear production RIR cockerels are notoriously mean so idk what to do. I want to keep Elvis but it is a toss up between Brooster(RIR) and Matty Ice(Deleware). I know one thing though. I want to smack Ice into tomorrow when he bites me. He isn't doing it to be mean so it's hard to be mad but he really does not understand what so ever that it is my hand and not food. He goes after my fingers hard. And today he grabbed a hold of my fresh scab and ripped it wide open. Any tips on stopping biting behavior now? Even if I try food in my hand he will look at it and still be more insterested in getting around the flat part of my hand and finding a place he can bite and rip at.
